Collaboration of Notes - Student-produced - Each student is expected to contribute some practice questions for upcoming tests and exams. Example - https://gr7vocab.wikispaces.com/Unit+8
Collection of information - i.e. wikipedia-like - Student-produced - synthesis and summary of information to employ higher level critical thinking skills; encourages information literacy as students must discern the validity of sources and present facts. See the Glengarrypedia link below.
Lesson Summaries - Student-produced - Students work in groups and assign scribes. They have to self-organize and peer-edit. Example - https://lcc9emerchant.wikispaces.com/ - Rubric for assessment
Jerusalem and Montreal wikis - collaborative literature project between LCC and Neveh Channah School students in Etzion Bloc, Israel. The results from this project are being published in a teacher education journal in Israel and the project is being used as an exemplary model for the Horizon Projects Wiki Project. The students exchanged reflections on pieces of their countries' literature and provided feedback for research projects. The interaction was fantastic! Some samples of discussion: here, here, here and here. The rubric being used to assess the students' peer feedback is also being used as a model. This project won a silver award from the International Society for Technology in Education - Special Interest Group Telelearning in May 2007!
Travel Blog - Students who were on exchange to Australia kept us up to date with their escapades. Over 1800 visits in 6 weeks!
Several projects come to mind that were particularly successful:
The Glass Castle Project - in-class assignment involving the creation of audio interviews with dramatized content based on this memoir. Rubric for assessment
Glengarrypedia - in-class assignment from the novel, Tourist's Guide to Glengarry, a Canadian novel, involving the synthesizing of research of cultural and historical information presented on a wiki (like wikipedia). Rubric for assessmen
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Models
Elementary Models
Jepcke's Page Space
Books Go Global
Techie Teacher PageFlakes
Classroom Blogs
Playgrounds: The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Elementary School project to promote happier playgrounds. This involves several classes in a school as well as input from other schools
Wiki on Waterways
Allanah King use this wiki to help student groups formulate learning.
Classroom Book Talks
Comparing Hemispheres
a joint project between Lisa Parisi's class in New York and Allanah King's class in New Zealand which looks at the differences and similarities between the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
South Paris Collaborative Chat
a blog for a class in New York that embeds a variety of projects done in her class.
Secondary Models
Collaboration of Notes - Student-produced - Each student is expected to contribute some practice questions for upcoming tests and exams. Example - https://gr7vocab.wikispaces.com/Unit+8
Collection of information - i.e. wikipedia-like - Student-produced - synthesis and summary of information to employ higher level critical thinking skills; encourages information literacy as students must discern the validity of sources and present facts. See the Glengarrypedia link below.
Lesson Summaries - Student-produced - Students work in groups and assign scribes. They have to self-organize and peer-edit. Example - https://lcc9emerchant.wikispaces.com/ - Rubric for assessment
Jerusalem and Montreal wikis - collaborative literature project between LCC and Neveh Channah School students in Etzion Bloc, Israel. The results from this project are being published in a teacher education journal in Israel and the project is being used as an exemplary model for the Horizon Projects Wiki Project. The students exchanged reflections on pieces of their countries' literature and provided feedback for research projects. The interaction was fantastic! Some samples of discussion: here, here, here and here. The rubric being used to assess the students' peer feedback is also being used as a model. This project won a silver award from the International Society for Technology in Education - Special Interest Group Telelearning in May 2007!
GVC-06 - collaborative web design project between three schools located in Arizona, Illinois, and Montréal. The wiki was used as a place students could provided feedback and peer-editing on creative writing stories. Students had to work hard on their negotiation skills as they worked on the storyline and graphics for this project. Here is an example of such negotiation. The resulting website is awesome! This project won the silver award in 2006-07 from the Global Virtual Classrooom !
Travel Blog - Students who were on exchange to Australia kept us up to date with their escapades. Over 1800 visits in 6 weeks!
Several projects come to mind that were particularly successful:
The Glass Castle Project - in-class assignment involving the creation of audio interviews with dramatized content based on this memoir. Rubric for assessment
Glengarrypedia - in-class assignment from the novel, Tourist's Guide to Glengarry, a Canadian novel, involving the synthesizing of research of cultural and historical information presented on a wiki (like wikipedia). Rubric for assessmen